12 posts tagged “drawings”
Yesterday I spent at least two hours drawing an otter. Today (and a number of other days that preceded it) I spent a good deal more time looking for sources of research funding, with much less to show for it. Productivity hooray.
On the other hand, the weather turned magically delicious while I was locked up indoors all day, and when I emerged at 8:15pm (I'd been substitute-teaching an evening class for a colleague) it was so shockingly lovely that it made me happy in spite of myself.
Another source of unexpected good feelings was this: Snark had to get up for a few hours smack in the middle of the night last night in order to do some computer thing for a client while the rest of the nation slept. Since he would have to set an alarm and get in and out of bed exactly when I am most likely to stare appalled at the ceiling for hours with insomnia in the event that I wake up on my own, neither of us was expecting to feel spectacularly well-rested or pleasant today. But since we were anticipating it, and I knew I'd have to stay at school extra late today anyhow, we granted ourselves an extra lazy morning, and it all wound up having a rather festive schedule-turned-upside-down effect. Not so bad after all.
In other high-achieving news, we watched two whole films in the past week. I cannot recommend I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, despite my fond feelings for Mike Hodges (or at least for Get Carter) and my well documented extremely favorable opinion of Clive Owen and his handsome, handsome handsomeness. Alas. If you are in the market for a charming trifle, however, I think you will find that Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day does not disappoint. I also finally finished my bathtub reading of The Little Drummer Girl, bringing me right up to date for 1983.
This is a lachrymouse. He goes "sobsobsobMEEP, sobsobsobMEEP," as you might expect.
This was a birthday commission for a friend (obviously not actually named Aleksandr Pushkin).
Or without the giant "Ex Libris" (as my friend preferred):
What do you think?
- A view across the rooftops of a town made of umbrellas
- Wombats abed (but you know beds are hard to draw!)
- That fennel bulb and its feathery foliage -- but in what setting? Perhaps some lumberjacks.
- Three Men in a Crouton Boat (To Say Nothing of the Bulldog)
This is not half as charming as it was in my head, but I don't have time to make it better (I didn't really have time to make it as it was). Oh well!
Just a little sumpin' sumpin'.
Oops, fixed to deal with the stupid misplaced highlight I originally had on the front cat-guy's pants. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with my color profile when I save this -- the raspberry color is much more intense in my Photoshop file. Oh well.
Thanks to lint's helpful suggestions, I have revised the squid picture. I think this version is a great improvement. If only crits in my university art classes had been so immediately rewarding.
Unfortunately, the new layout does result in a proportional en-smallening of the squid and girl when it gets resized for Vox. But you can click through to see a version large enough that the squid does not appear to be a giant daikon. The border is just there so you can appreciate what's going on with the arrangement on the page.
Just three colors on this one, and no vegetables. Astonishing! But meanwhile, I bought a fennel bulb at the farmer's market this weekend for the express purpose of having an excuse to draw something else with feathery foliage. Whatever compression Vox does with its automatic resizing is having an unfortunate effect of making the edges of color areas darker than they should be here, giving a watercolor/over-Unsharp-Mask'd effect. Oh well.
Another drawing made with the tablet. It's not as sexy as the frilly-headed carrot, but I like the poster-y quality on this one. Mise en scene, if any, to be decided. Please make suggestions. It's fun!
Maybe it should be towering over a dense grey cityscape, or maybe some small creatures should be resting in the shade of its leaves? I haven't forgotten about the other carrot options either.
This might serve as a color separation for a silkscreen version of the astrobun carrot. Right now it's in five colors (light green, dark green, dark blue-grey, light orange, and dark orange). I also did one with the shadow in light green, but (stupidly) didn't save it. I dunno. The auto-resize makes the shadow dots weird, but they look OK at the full size that I uploaded.
And a detail:
